Businesses need to focus on three key strategies for optimizing their mobile presence for making the most of the rapid growth in local commercially relevant search. The ability to match the intent indicated by keywords with user location is a…
Local is front and center in the next phase of ecommerce opening up, said eBAY VP of Marketplaces Jody Ford during a keynote address Dec. 10 at Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media in San Francisco. Ford said the past…
Today at BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media conference, leaders of local digital agencies shared some critical success factors in the challenging business of offering agency services to local business -- that combination of brand agnostic digital marketing…
At BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local conference, Facebook VP of Product Marketing Brian Boland amplified a local business theme we've been hearing from the social network for a while: simplicity, engagement and outcomes rule. The company has actually reduced the number…
GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving said during his opening keynote at Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media in San Francisco that the world's leading domain registrar with 12 million, mostly SMB customers is moving beyond the "polarizing tactics" it has…
Businesses today have access to far more information on the products and services they buy, a long-term trend that is having a profound impact on local sales, making its success much more dependent on science than art. Selling increasingly is…
While the volume of deals (acquisitions and capital raises) in the local media space hasn't really grown much this year, the volume of these deals exploded, according to BIA/Kelsey's deal tracking effort called Local Media Investment Watch. Deal value…
What we hear from everyone is that SMBs can't figure out what marketing solutions they should employ, how to go mobile, or measure how well they're doing on the Web. That realization is driving the direction of a number of…
A few years ago, Merchant Circle pushed the boundaries of SMB marketing,-- getting claimed profiles from over one million SMBs with just minimal staff but the latest in social marketing (and telemarketing) techniques. The site has continued to develop after…
One of the hottest topics in tech & media is the quickly evolving state of mobile advertising. Meanwhile, some of mobile's early promises include high intent users, and more trackable advertising. The latter is where things are really getting interesting.…
Shopping through mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is re-shaping how purchases are made during one of the biggest consumer spending weekends of the year. According to the National Retail Federation, more than 141 million Americans shopped over the holiday…
ReachLocal announced today that it is moving away from its new ClubLocal business, which connects consumers with service providers. The publicly-owned company said that it is now considering a deal that would allow ClubLocal to be taken over by a…
http://youtu.be/eKEj5m8uRE0 We have taken a drawing of the many entrants for our Yelp headquarters "PreCon" tour at Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media on Dec. 10, and we have a lucky group of winners. The new Yelp building is the…
Recent reports of more online/digital companies using television as a key advertising vehicle has furthered buoyed the fortunes of this media. After a remarkable 2012 in political advertising sales, many local television stations this year felt in a comfortable position.…
Retargeting is now available for local marketing campaigns after having been primarily used by national marketers. The practice, which inserts ads that had previously been viewed on other sites, has become increasingly important for online marketing. But it hasn't been…
Over the past few weeks, we've been writing and recording analyst roundtables about a potential new area of local media and advertising: Variable product pricing. Like airline pricing, but on steroids, the idea is that the age of big data and…
A new Local Commerce Monitor™ (LCM) UK Spotlight report examines UK SMBs that self-identify as newspaper advertisers in the UK reveals a huge opportunity for growth and adoption of digital and non-traditional media channels. UK newspaper SMBs are adopting newer…
Even newspaper advertisers, long seen as favoring traditional media, are increasingly shifting their ad spend to digital. More and more these SMBs are exploring the advertising opportunities digital media has to offer and with that spending is shifting in…
Craig's List is going to begin charging used car dealers $5 for 30 day placements, beginning December 3. The new fee is the latest stage in the slow evolution of Craig's List to a partially premium site that still offers…
For the last month or so, I've been playing with the developer build of Wanderful Media's Find & Save iPhone app. Today the app launched, just in time for the barrage of shopping holidays that the online and retail worlds…
